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Arrow Down

A coming storm, the upending of American politics

Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:13 UTC
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The defeat of Eric Cantor - GOP House majority leader and a leading light of the party's neoconservative-corporatist wing - has the pundits in an uproar. They are flummoxed: what could have led to one of the biggest upsets in American political history? After all, a party majority leader hasn't been defeated - let alone in a primary! - since 1877. And who is this guy, Dave Brat, anyway - who raised around $200,000 total, but only spent half of it, while Cantor - the Chamber of Commerce's best friend - raised and spent millions?

They settled on a neat little narrative early on: the election was all about immigration, they told us, and Brat is a "Tea Party" politician with "nativist" tendencies. That explanation, however, soon fell apart when it was revealed that the Tea Party groups had done exactly nothing to help Brat: indeed the leader of Tea Party Patriots, one of the biggest national groups, wouldn't even take his phone calls.

Furthermore, it turned out Brat had campaigned not only or even primarily on the immigration issue - which only came up in the last few days of the campaign - but on what he called "crony capitalism," hitting Cantor over and over again on his subservience to corporate interests. And it wasn't the typical left-wing egalitarian demagogy that condemns any successful business for not putting "people before profits," as the old Communist Party USA slogan puts it. Brat was steamed that businessmen were going to Washington asking for special favors - subsidies - in order to boost (or maintain) their profit margins, and Cantor was a major cog in their political machine.
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Light Sabers

Russia's Investigative Committee chief says they will find and punish Ukrainian war criminals


Russia Legal Information Agency
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:17 UTC
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Those who are guilty of committing military crimes in eastern Ukraine will be punished even if they hide "at the bottom of the ocean," Investigative Committee head Sergei Bastrykin said on Wednesday.

In late May, Russia's Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, where independence supporters have been fighting the Ukrainian armed forces for over a month. An investigation has been initiated against unidentified servicemen from Ukraine's National Guard and the Right Sector.

In late May, the Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested four members of the Right Sector ultra-nationalist group who were plotting attacks in Simferopol, Yalta and Sevastopol. Earlier, Russian investigators initiated a terrorism case against Right Sector leader Dmitry Yarosh.
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Eye 1

Kenya al-Shabaab attack 'was led by white man speaking fluent British English'


Uk Telegraph
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:22 UTC
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60 people were killed in Sunday night's attack on the small coastal town of Mpeketoni
White man speaking 'fluent British English' led al-Shabaab attack in Kenya that left 60 dead, witnesses claim

A white man speaking "fluent British English" led suspected al-Shabaab commandos who ransacked towns in northern Kenya leaving 60 people dead, witnesses have said.

Several people in Mpeketoni, which was attacked by as many as 40 Islamist gunmen on Sunday, told The Telegraph that the gang's leader was pale-skinned and spoke English.

One of the witnesses is a primary schoolteacher who speaks good English, unlike many people in the remote corner of Kenya near the Lamu archipelago that earlier this week became the country's latest terror target.

"I saw a white man who was speaking in fluent British English commanding the rest of the attackers," said Mary Gachoki, who lives in Mpeketoni.
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Dollar

Putin's aide Sergey Glazyev proposes anti-dollar alliance to force US to end Ukraine's civil war

Valentin Mândrăşescu
Voice of Russia
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:57 UTC
Sergey Glazyev
© «Голос России»Sergey Glazyev
Sergey Glazyev, the economic aide of Vladimir Putin, published an article outlining a plan for "undermining the economic strength of the US" in order to force Washington to stop the civil war in Ukraine. Glazyev believes that the only way of making the US give up its plans on starting a new cold war is to crash the dollar system.

In his article, published by Argumenty Nedeli, Putin's economic aide and the mastermind behind the Eurasian Economic Union, argues that Washington is trying to provoke a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, using the junta in Kiev as bait. If fulfilled, the plan will give Washington a number of important benefits. Firstly, it will allow the US to introduce new sanctions against Russia, writing off Moscow's portfolio of US Treasury bills. More important is that a new wave of sanctions will create a situation in which Russian companies won't be able to service their debts to European banks.
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Black Magic

US in Iraq: Geopolitical arsonists seek to burn the whole region

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:19 UTC
Iraq Isis map
© UnknownISIS's alleged territory spans across both Iraqi and Syrian territory. If it is able to establish a NATO-backed buffer zone, it will be able to launch attacks with impunity into Syria, Iraq, and Iran - in a region-wide sectarian war the West has been engineering for years.
When a fire is raging, firefighters are called - not the arsonist who started it, especially if they return to the scene of the crime dragging a barrel of gasoline behind them. Yet, this is precisely what the US proposes - that they - the geopolitical arsonists - be allowed to return to Iraq to extinguish the threat of heavily armed sectarian militants streaming from NATO territory in Turkey and edging ever closer to Baghdad.

ISIS: Made in USA

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a creation of the United States and its Persian Gulf allies, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and recently added to the list, Kuwait. The Daily Beast in an article titled, "America's Allies Are Funding ISIS," states:The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.

Comment: See also: Psycho 'Reality Creators' open 'gates of hell' in Iraq with proxy Jihadis

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TV

Best of the Web: The Fall of Iraq - What You're Not Being Told


SCG News
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:34 UTC

Transcript:

Iraq is descending into chaos, but not for the reasons you're being fed by the politicians and the mainstream media.

In June of 2014 the world watched in shock as an Islamic militant group operating under the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or ISIS), took control of Mosul, Baiji and Tikrit and began pushing south to Baghdad. Fallujah has been under their control since January.

[Note they are also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL]

Iraqi military and police put up very little resistance in spite of the fact that they greatly outnumbered the militants. Most fled their posts and left their uniforms and weapons behind, those who didn't were killed.

ISIS, whose stated goal is to erase the border between Syria and Iraq, to establish an Islamic Caliphate encompassing both countries, and to impose sharia law, already holds vast swaths of territory, and they are rapidly gaining ground.

How did this happen?
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Chess

The Saker: The time has come for Putin to make the most important decision of his Presidency


The Vineyard of the Saker
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:54 UTC
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Today I would like to just share two thoughts with you and suggest that each and every one of you come to his/her own conclusions.

First, Russia was literally "sucked into" WWI by the Germany. Russia did not have to enter the war as Russia herself was not attacked. "Only" Serbia was. Russia was not ready to enter the war, but the Czar-Martyr Saint Nicholas II decided that it was his Christian duty was to take the defense of the Serbian people even if all pragmatic considerations were clearly advocating against a Russian intervention. This war soon turned out to be extremely costly for Russia and greatly contributed to the weakening of the Russian monarchy which eventually resulted in a Aristocratic-Masonic coup (February 1917) followed by a Jewish-Bolshevik coup (October 1917). Did the Czar do the right thing when he decided to defend the Serbian nation at the potential cost of his own Empire, the last Christian Empire in history? It is a fact that the Serbian Prince Alexander and the Serbian people have always shown an immense and sincere gratitude to the Russian people and to Czar Nicholas II (whose first icon was painted on a fresco in Serbia, not Russia). But Russia also liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke. We now see the kind of "gratitude" Russia got from Bulgaria. Will a liberated Novorossia be more like Serbia or more like Bulgaria?
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Vader

The neo-Nazi junta in Kiev does everything to provoke Russian into an intervention

The Saker
The vineyard of the Saker
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:55 UTC
Gas Pipeline
© AFP/ Alexander ZobinRussia closes for the gas after Ukraine has refused to pay for the gas it has received.
By now you have all already probably heard it. The CEO of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, has announced that Russia was now implementing a "prepayment only" gas delivery plan for the Ukraine and Lavrov has announced that he has "nothing to talk about" with the Ukie clown currently impersonating a Foreign Minister, Andrii Deshchytsia, and that he "would not meet with him". Unlike the always calm and impeccably diplomatic Lavrov, Miller made no effort to show his complete disgust with, and contempt for, the junta in Kiev whom he clearly sees as blackmailing and stealing mobsters. This was especially evident when he said that the amount of gas the Ukies had set aside in their reserves was exactly the amount of gas which they were now refusing to pay for. To put it in plain English: the Ukies stole gas from Russia to fill up their reserves and they are about to begin stealing gas bought by the Europeans. Nice folks indeed. Very "Euro-compatible" I suppose...

So my first reaction was to rejoice that Lavrov and Miller and finally expressed their total disgust and treated the junta leader with the disgust and contempt they deserve. But then a very unpleasant thought crept up into my mind: is that not exactly what the Ukies wanted?
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Dollars

Pesticide & GMO companies spend big in Hawai'i

Rebekah Wilce
prwatch.org
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:08 UTC
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Hawai'i has become "ground zero" in the controversy over genetically modified (GMO) crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including conventional as well as GMO crops) reaping $146.3 million a year in sales resulting from its activities in Hawai'i, the out-of-state pesticide and GMO firms Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Dow Chemical, BASF, and Bayer CropScience have brought substantial sums of corporate cash into the state's relatively small political arena.

Chemical Conglomerates Retaliate Against Local Democratic Control

These "Big 6" pesticide and GMO firms are active on the islands in a big way, making use of the three to four annual growing seasons to develop new GMO seeds more quickly. The development of new GMOs by these pesticide and seed conglomerates goes hand-in-hand with heavy pesticide use in some of the islands' experimental crop fields, new data show.

Comment: For more information on the growing public dissent of corporate sponsored GMO & pesticide poisoning in Hawaii read the following:

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Rocket

US missile defense system proves to be useless after a decade of being declared operational, and $40 billion spent


RT
Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:21 UTC
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© AFP PhotoA Ground-based Interceptor, an element of the overall Ground-based Midcourse Defense system
Despite a decade of testing and tens of billions of dollars' worth of research, a major missile defense program in the United States has proven to be anything but successful, a new investigation suggests.

Nevertheless, the Missile Defense Agency, or MDA, plans on conducting next week its ninth exercise of that costly system since 2004, and the outcome of the drill is expected to influence whether or not more than a dozen new interceptors are added to the United States' arsenal.

According to a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times, however, that system has so far been marred by mistakes that raise questions about its ability to thwart any major attack and the cost incurred during the last decade.

The results of the Times probe, published by the paper on Sunday this week, show that Pentagon officials with inside knowledge of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, say the program has suffered from mishaps more often than the US government would have expected.
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